Police Firearms News & Articles

Police Firearms News & Articles

By Demian Bulwa and Peter Fimrite San Francisco ChronicleSAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Police Department will investigate internally the actions of an off-duty officer whose gun went off Friday ...

By Serdar Tumgoren The RecordBERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — North Jersey police are stockpiling some of the most sophisticated tactical and assault weapons on the market, but some residents question the need ...

By Ryan Lillis The Sacramento BeeSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento police have seized 56 guns and more than 800 rounds of ammunition from convicts and gang members over the past year through an ordinance ...

By Mary MacDonald The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionSANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — A Sandy Springs businessman said Monday he had no ulterior motive when he offered his private firing range for an unusual Police ...

Jim Lanzi, the Crime Prevention Coordinator for the Department of Public Safety at Princeton, filed an anonymous complaint (his identity was later revealed) against the school with OSHA in which he stated – rightly so in our view – that by not allowing campus police the ability to carry guns, the university has created a workplace safety hazard. But OHSA sided with the University’s contention that “Princeton Township and Borough police will be there when needed and on-campus public safety officers still do not need guns” according to a report in the Times of Trenton. ...

By Carolyn Rusin The Chicago TribuneCHICAGO — Schaumburg police will equip squad cars with semiautomatic rifles, replacing the shotguns that had been issued to officers, officials said Tuesday.Officials ...

By Frank Main, Chicago Sun TimesThe Chicago Police Department seized more than 13,000 guns last year, but only a handful of people were arrested for violating the city's handgun ban, records show.Chicago ...

By Dave Grossi I retired from a department in upstate New York that frowned on back-up guns. Well, frowned on is too polite. Prohibited is more accurate. Try as we might, my Firearms/Force Training Unit ...